On Fri 14 Jan 2005 at 10:31:45 +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> In addition, patch-ac had the wrong path to a file
> which had to be patched. When I'd corrected the pathname, it turned
> out that identical copies of the same file were in two subdirectories,
> so I made them all point to the same patched file using symbolic links.

Whoever packaged the original tar file did something strange. The files
in the subdirectory are not needed and they are not even in the cvs. As
far as I can see, they get removed if necessary and replaced by symlinks
during configure and build. So your post-extract target should not be
necessary (although it won't harm either):

config.status: creating debian/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: linking ./gen/src/regex.c to gen/rts/nmrts/regex.c
config.status: linking ./gen/src/regex.h to gen/rts/nmrts/regex.h
config.status: linking ./gen/rts/rts.c to gen/rts/nmrts/rts.c
config.status: linking ./gen/rts/rtsagfl.c to gen/rts/nmrts/rtsagfl.c
config.status: linking ./gen/rts/rtsagfl.h to gen/rts/nmrts/rtsagfl.h
...

The shoddy configure script is going to be replaced in the next version,
and I have commited the patches that represent the genuine 64-bit bugs
to the cvs of agfl. I hope something useful will be done about the rpath
handling, since I don't like it very much the way I made it here (even
though it is better than in a previous incarnation). The dependency on
glib is also going to be removed since it is almost completely
unnecessary.

About Latex, I didn't want to make this package depend on latex.
There is a downloadable copy of the manual available at
http://www.cs.ru.nl/agfl/papers/manual.{ps.gz,pdf}. Maybe that can be
used. It is more recent too.

-Olaf.
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